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...there may be more to the story: Jamaica's deputy commissioner of police says the authorities are treating Woolmer's death as suspicious. An autopsy completed on Tuesday was inconclusive, and investigators said they need to wait for final toxicology reports to determine the cause of death. A Pakistani team source told the media that there had been signs of strangulation on Woolmer's body. Indian TV news programs are now speculating that Woolmer intended to expose match-fixing in the game, and that someone - former Pakistani player Sarfraz Nawaz pointed the finger at the subcontinent's betting mafia - wanted...
...peace accord signed last September with tribal leaders in North Waziristan, the Pakistani government agreed to scale down its operations in the area if local militants would refrain from attacking government troops and would end cross-border raids into Afghanistan. On that front, the agreement has clearly failed - cross-border attacks have increased threefold since September, according to U.S. military officials. Many of those have been bomb attacks on government officials and police officers in provincial capitals such as Khost. Last year, Hajji Muslim was nearly killed by a remote-detonated IED that blew apart his car and left...
...Foreign diplomats and government officials this week questioned Musharraf's judgment. Some have suggested it's the beginning of the end for the military man who seized power in a 1999 coup. "I think he has ruined himself," says Lieutenant General (Rtd) Hameed Gul, the former director general of Pakistani intelligence organization Inter Services Intelligence (ISI). "He's not going to be able to placate the forces he has unleashed...
...says the judicial crisis is an internal Pakistani matter. On a trip to Islamabad, Assistant Secretary of State Richard Boucher told reporters that while the U.S. supported Pakistan's moves toward democracy, this specific problem is "something the Pakistani system is going to have to deal with...
...himself was harbored by a member of Qatar's royal family after he was indicted in the U.S. for the Bojinka plot - a plan to bomb twelve American airplanes over the Pacific. KSM and al-Qaeda also received aid from supporters in Pakistan, quite possibly from sympathizers in the Pakistani intelligence service. KSM provides no details that would suggest we are getting the full story from...